AGC & Arcoro Workforce Survey
94 Percent of Construction Firms Report Having a Hard Time Finding Workers to Hire, Undermining Efforts to Build Infrastructure & Other Projects As Industry Calls for Better Federal Workforce Policies
The nation’s failure to invest in construction… Read More
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On March 30, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) hiring benchmark for 2018. Effective March 31, 2018, the hiring benchmark will be 6.4 percent, down from 6.7 percent in… Read More
April 6, 2018
On April 3, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) began officially accepting applications for the Payroll Audit Independent Determination (PAID) program and provided supplemental information about participation on the program’s website. The PAID program… Read More
April 6, 2018
The use of the “Segal Blend” interest assumption to calculate a withdrawing company’s multiemployer pension liability was a “mistake” and unsupported by the record, according to the decision in The New York Times Co. v. Newspapers & Mail Deliverers’-Publishers’ Pension Fund, No. 1:17-cv-… Read More
April 5, 2018
Construction employment increased in 257 out of 358 metro areas between February 2017 and February 2018, declined in 50 and stagnated in 51, according to a new analysis of federal employment data released today by the Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials said that the… Read More
April 5, 2018
Join us on September 12-13, 2018 in Crystal City, Virginia
Are you ready for great discussions and learning something new at this year’s environmental conference? Registration is open, so reserve your seat for the AGC’s 2018 Construction Environmental Conference returning to the DoubleTree… Read More
April 5, 2018
Kara Tanek, GLY Construction, Inc
“It used to take me 45 minutes to prepare for my meeting, now it takes me five!”
“You’re getting rid of a spreadsheet? Revolutionary!”
Since going live with our new customer relationship management (CRM) system, our firm recognizes that comments like these are… Read More
April 1, 2018
AGC Seeks Input from Members on Potential Impact to Their Operations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is accepting public comment until May 21 on several topics related to the question of whether the federal government should use the Clean Water Act (CWA) National Pollutant… Read More
March 27, 2018
Thirty-five states and the District of Columbia added construction jobs between February 2017 and February 2018, while 38 states added construction jobs between January and February, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of Labor Department data released today.… Read More
March 23, 2018
AGC spoke out against proposed guidelines that would make establishing new mitigation banks more onerous. The draft guidelines would make investment in mitigation less attractive and increase the cost of projects that rely on robust mitigation banks to comply with legal requirements and stay… Read More
March 16, 2018
Construction employment increased in 248 out of 358 metro areas between January 2017 and January 2018, declined in 68 and stagnated in 42, according to a new analysis of federal employment data released today by the Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials said that future… Read More
March 16, 2018
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